https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:57:03 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/stross-charles/38039/ https://wist.info/stross-charles/38039/#respond Wed, 11 Oct 2017 01:08:46 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=38039 Y2K was a real end-of-civilization problem. And the people who could deal with it treated it as such, working flat-out on disaster management for the last year-long countdown. With the result that the end-of-the-world scenario didn’t happen … causing everyone not directly involved to conclude that it was a false alarm.

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